Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Hywel Dda University Health Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Individual supplier
- Value
- £5,300,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Dental-practice services (CPV 85131000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 050973-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 May 2026
- Published29 May 2026Published the same day
Description
Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) is awarding a contract to a new provider to set up a new dental practice in Ceredigion to provide access for the local population to NHS Dental Services, delivering appropriate, quality, efficient and cost-effective services within the mandatory and potential additional services framework of the Personal Dental Services (PDS) regulations and agreement and the Welsh Government (WG) Dental Contract Reform (DCR) programme and the associated GDS/PDS Contract Variation in respect of contract reform elements.